>> hope to see you here next week. onfnc. >> hope to see you here next week. gd gigo . the security of our nation's power grid becoming a concern. i'm arthelness ville. >> i'll gregg jarrett. a california substation became under attack by a sniper last year. law makers are trying to guard our nation's power grid from more security risks after revealing it may be vulnerable to sabotage that could lead to a massive blackout.

>> reporter: this is a very alarming development why you have four democratic senators worried about whether the grid is completely vulnerable and not just here in california, but across the nation. two other senators dianne feinstein and harry reid writing a letter to regulators saying they want to see further measures to secure it. looking on your screen right now we've got surveillance video of the attack in april last year on a substation that threatened to cut off the power to silicon valley. those sparks are the results of 100 rounds being fired by a gunman in san jose. apparently those hundred rounds did quite some damage. the utility pg&e said it was vandalism. now the former chairman of the federal energy regulation commission said he thinks it's terrorism executed by well-trained individuals and perhaps a test run, very alarmingly, for a larger attack. the fbi denied this was terrorism. they are taking it very seriously. in washington, well there is

much alarm as i say. listen to this. >> this was an unprecedented attack on an electric substation using military-style weapons for the attack. >> they want to see urgent action taken to defend the grid. they issued this statement yesterday saying while it appears many utilities have a firm grasp on the problem, we simply do not know if there are substantial numbers of utilities or others that may not have taken adequate measures to protect against and minimize the harm from physical attack. fox news understands pg&e the utility in charge of that substation in san jose are taking what is described as aggressive measures to prevent further attacks from happening. they are not detailing what exactly they are doing to implement further security. they say they do have a system in place that should there be

damaged facilities from terror attack or vandalism, they are able to route the power around the grid so that people manage to keep the lights on. they are working with the fbi, other agencies and policy makers to up as much security as they can. after what appears to be a cover-up for months, it appears terrorism is a primary concern for the power grid in america now. >> they don't know who these guys are who did it. stay tuned for that. more winter weather is in store this weekend for much of our country. out west, oregon continues to get hit hard as it tries to dig out from earlier storms. the storms could bring relief to some areas hit hard by drought. meteorologist janice dean live in the fox extreme weather center with the latest this could mean good news for california. in particular northern california, right?

>> ultimately an excellent news story, arthel. the problem is we do have wintry weather in areas that don't typically get several inches of snow. mainly portland, oregon. they are expecting more snow in the forecast and perhaps a period of ice. there is portland. south of that area is where we have an ice storm warning for salem and eugene until the overnight hours where we could have accumulating ice over 1/2 inch on the roadways, the power lines. that is going to be dangerous and we have winter weather warnings that extend into the intermountain west as well as the sierra down into the california area which is great for the snow pack. they need this snow pack. more snow in your forecast today. sunday we could get a mixture of snow and ice. unfortunately monday, tuesday, wednesday more wet weather on the way. it won't be in the form of snow. the skiers, i'm sure, are

jumping for joy. we are also going to watch some of this energy push across the southern part of the country in the next couple of days, giving the potential for an ice storm again in areas that don't typically see winter weather across louisiana, mississippi and alabama. see that icy mix here in towards atlanta, as well. we'll be watching you because just a week ago we were seeing the incredible storm that brought that city to a halt. more cold air sinking as far south as the gulf coast this week. winter is in full swing and no report of it ending just yet. >> it's february 8th. it's okay. we can live with winter a little bit longer. thanks. >> speak for yourself. very sluggish job growth for a second straight month. according to the labor department, u.s. added a mere 113,000 new jobs in january. the nation's unemployment rate again dropped a tiny percentage

to 6.6%. mostly because people just gave up. it is the lowest rate since october 2008. to tell us what these numbers mean, elizabeth prann in washington. >> the unemployment rate is at its lowest point since october of 2008 when the financial crisis first started erupting. analysts say 6.6% figure is attributed to a drop in overall work force participation. this month's number show a second month of stagnant statistics. the economy added 113,000 jobs. last year's average monthly gain was close to 194,000. republicans say this report exemplifies the pressure on the middle class. many of them pointing to the president's signature health care law, which they say is inflating government spending and raising health care costs. house speaker john brainerbrain

john boehner released a statement. their failure to lead has resulted in the worst job recovery in history and as we learned their health care law will drive millions out of an already-diminished labor force. a trouble trend is stagnant wages. an economy even the president says needs improvement. >> too many americans are working harder than ever to get by let alone get ahead. that's been true since long before the recession hit. we've got to reverse those trends. we've got to build an economy that works for everyone, not just a fortunate few. in the opportunity agenda i laid out last week helped us do that. >> wall street was unscathed from the unemployment report friday. investors sent stocks higher after three straight weeks of losses. back to you. >> elizabeth prann in washington, thanks. family and friends saying good-bye to joan mondale at a memorial service in minneapolis. the wife of former u.s. vice president walter mondale died monday after a long illness.

vice president joe biden and former president jimmy carter attending services today. nicknamed joan of arc during the carter administration, mrs. mondale known for her strong support of fine arts. she was 83 years old. this year marks 50 years since the murder of kitty genovee. she was stabbed to death as many neighbors watched her die. what later became known as bystander syndrome. >> what is the bystander syndrome? >> there is a tendency for at least four or five reasons for people to see an emergency and not respond. first thing they have to notice the incident. in this case they thought it was a scream in the night. >> some people thought it was a lover's quarrel. >> exactly. people have to decide it's really an emergency.

they see lights going on and figure, it doesn't seem too important. nobody is helping her. >> so i don't either. >> exactly. then the third step, people may think that something should be done but why should it be them? the fourth step i call concern confusion. that's where people see the event, they want to do something, but they are not sure what to do. people becomeparalyzed. >> the cream nobody answered. "fox files" airs tomorrow night at 9:00 p.m. eastern here on the fox news channel. congress is closing in on the debt limit deadline. some law makers aren't playing nice, taking shots across the aisle. what is in store for the showdown and what it can moon for mid terms coming up. hundreds of thousands of people are still freezing and stuck in the dark as utility crews fight the weather to restore power. we'll tell you how they are doing it next. [ female announcer ] a classic macaroni & cheese from stouffer's

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time for a quick check of the headlines. at least 18 people are dead in argentina after a truck going the wrong way on a highway crashes into a passenger bus. crews are still working to restore power to some 150,000 homes and businesses in the philadelphia area. days after an icy storm brought down power lines, leaving 850,000 customers across pennsylvania in the dark. >> across the world, japan's first heavy snowstorm in more than a decade bringing tokyo to a standstill. about four inches of snow snarled traffic, grounded hundreds of flights and reportedly is to blame for the death of at least three people. the nation's debt limit

fight taking center stage yet again as congress closes in on its february 27th deadline to come to an agreement of some sorts over raising the debt ceiling or face a default on the debt. leading law makers taking shots across the aisle. >> i don't know what is going on in their caucus. i think they keep trying to find a way to get people to vote for lifting the debt ceiling by putting proposals on that that shouldn't be on there. it should be clean. >> i think we are still looking for the pieces to this puzzle. listen, we do not want to default on our debt and we are not going to default on our debt. we are in discussions with members about how we can move ahead. we've got time to do this. we'll continue to work at it. no decisions have been made. >> joining me now is our political panel stephen sigmund, democratic strategy at global strategy group.

brad blakeman. you just heard pelosi. she pretends that the debt ceiling votes are supposed to be clean, no conditions. i've got to tell you, she is bluff organize oblivious. under reagan, bush '41, bill clinton, the debt limit increases were almost always tied to spending cuts. every major effort to deal with the deficit over the last 30 years or so has been tied to the debt limit. so it's not unreasonable, is it, steve, to ask for some corresponding cuts? >> look, i think the debt limit fight is not going to be a fight this month because the speaker boehner clearly learned it is a disastrous political strategy to recklessly tie actually paying the nation's bills scattered under previous administrations to conditions that you point out there may have been some discussion in the past, but the

united states of america never defaulted on its debt. >> it wasn't a discussion. these were major budget deals. >> as a democratic strategist, i would like to see republicans keep going back to a disastrous strategy that hasn't worked for them. >> major budget deals. biggest one was bill clinton in 1997. brad, president obama is sort of like pelosi. he says he is going to oppose any and all conditions attached to the debt limit height. like pelosi implies that it's illegitimate to do otherwise. he should read a little recent history. doesn't that put him not only at odds with his predecessors, but at odds with himself. remember 2011? he seems to be afflicted with some amnesia. >> this president has been duplicitous since in office, whether it's the surge, economic

policy. this is just another example where the president, now that he's president, makes the rules according to obama. is it reckless for republicans to tell democrats it's reckless to spend more than we take in? when this president has increased the deficit by another $7 trillion? it's wrong for republicans to say we can't go on continuing to spend more than we take in? if that's reckless, yeah, i guess we are reckless. >> steve, i want to show you some polls, recent fox news poll. president obama getting pretty bad marks there. 59% disapprove of his handling of the economy. 66% disapprove of his handling of the deficit. that's what we are talking about here. >> what we are talking about -- >> let me finish. there is another poll that finds 6-10 americans want the debt ceiling hike to be tied to spending cuts. isn't the president on the wrong side of this thing? >> not in the least. over and over again as showdowns

have happened, americans have shown they want the united states to pay their bills. >> and they want it tied to spending cuts. >> brad had a fact wrong. the deficit has been cut in half under obama. >> no, it has not. >> we are talking about the debt ceiling. if republicans want to keep going through this same show of having a debt ceiling showdown on a political issue they lose on over and over again, do it. >> the american people lose. the american people lose and the democrats continue to spend money we don't have. >> one at a time. go ahead, steve. >> republicans tried to have an actual reasonable conversation about immigration reform finally, you saw the tea party they are so enthralled to write a million letters and threaten to fire john boehner and they capitulated me. >> you're losing me on that. you went afield. the debt clock, $17,326

trillion. and going up every half second by leaps and bounds. this week a couple of days ago house republicans suggested they are going to move toward a bill here that would limit the debt ceiling hike for one full year while, among other things, pass the medicare reimbursement rate. how would you handicap that? >> republicans are going to put these issues, maybe the excel pipeline tried to this to keep the pressure on democrats. we are not just going to roll over and give them a clean bill to continue this spending path. the american people have to understand a day of reckoning is coming. i think we are not going to be in a default situation. cooler heads will prevail. there will be a six month bill to get us past 2014. then the american people really have to weigh in here. do they want to continue spending more than we take in through a reckless budget where we don't have the budget? the american people have to say enough's enough.

that's going to come in november. whatever deal is made is not going to be the deal necessarily republicans want. >> democrats and obama administration tried to make an agreement that take care of those issues for the long term instead of continuing to punt them down the road as brad is talking about for six months at a time just because they want to defeat this president on anything he happens to propose. >> all right. gentlemen, steven sigmund, brad blakeman, thank you very much. >> thank you. and coming up, all the snow and ice that is plaguing most of the country creating a major health concern you might not expect. why the red cross is pleading for your help. ♪ ♪ for over 60,000 california foster children,

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severe winter weather causing a health emergency forcing the cancellations of nearly 1,000 blood drives in 33 states. so now the red cross says they are desperately in need of blood donations. brian yoenis live in our new york city newsroom. high, brian. >> yeah, like you said, according to the american red cross, over all 33 states and washington, d.c., have had blood drive cancellations. that's because of the bad weather this month. that's a big deal. every two seconds someone in the u.s. needs blood. more than 41,000 blood donations are needed every day. the wintery mess and freezing temperatures keeping potential donors at home causing 33,000 lost blood and platelet donations. that's equivalent to if the red cross had closed its doors. especially those with type o

negative blood. a universal blood that can be used in emergency situations when a patient's blood type is unknown. with more snow expected tomorrow, the new york blood center is trying to make sure area hospitals are stocked. >> the snowstorm hit on wednesday and we lost pretty much all of the donations on wednesday. the storm just before that we had lost donations and blood drives were canceled so we're really in catch up mode and we put the word out and donors responded. >> bad weather is always an obstacle for blood drawings. this year is one of the worst in recent memory. storms affecting connecticut, new york, as far south as georgia and alabama. mayor de blasio was donating blood. >> i think to some extent it feels like almost an obligation. you know, i have one of those blood types that they say is always in demand so i come fairly regularly and it does feel good to come.

more than anything i feel i should be coming here. >> if you can donate, you should. it's important to know that blood donated in one location can be sent to places nationwide where there is a greater need. >> good to know. you don't think of that part of the story. thanks for bringing that to us, brian yoenis. >> no problem, martha. people should get out there and donate blood. >> such desperate need in some places. all right. a police officer busted after he killed a man inside a movie theater who was texting. new surveillance video today showing the fatal confrontation. was it justified in any way or will the tape put him away for murder? our legal panel is here to talk about it coming up. too big. too small.

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hello, i'm greg. welcome to "america's news headquarters." >> i'm marcel. topping the news this hour. president obama willing to go alone to move his agenda forward. republicans are pushing back for bipartisanship. who will win. and weak job numbers for a second straight month. what's behind this slump? is the economy losing what little vigor it had. >> also, a judge in florida releasing a video of a deadly movie theater shooting. was it fair to the ex-cop charged with murder?

president obama doubling down on his pledge to go around congress. in his weekly address today the president echoing much of what he said in his state of the union speech when he laid out his plans for issues like immigration and warning republicans if they don't act, he will push the reforms through all by himself. we're live in washington. molly? >> reporter: hi, greg. president obama spoke more today about his economic goals for the year. more spending on job training and education, for example, and suggested he'll try to make it happen with or without congress. i want to work with congress on this agenda wherever i can, but in this year of action, whenever i can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for more american families, i will. i've got a pen and i've got a phone. a pen to take executive action and a phone to rally citizens and business leaders who are eager to create new jobs and new

opportunities. >> the president has not been shy about going around congress in the past couple of years. he used an executive action to change the health care law and pushed back the penalty phase for businesses. he also used executive actions to change immigration laws and create new global warming programs. the top house republican said the gop is weary of trying to work with the president on big issues because lawmakers aren't convinced that the president, quote, can be trusted to enforce our laws. >> the president seems to change the health care law on a whim whenever he likes. now he's running around the country telling everyone that he's going to keep acting on his own, keeps talking about his phone and his pen, and he's feeding more distrust about whether he's committed to the rule of law. >> the president says he intends to use that pen and phone to, quote, make a difference for middle class americans. greg? >> molly hennenberg in

washington. greg, four u.s. senators now calling for review of security standards after the sabotage of a california power grid substation by an unknown sniper. this is coming just days after the federal chairman of the nrc said the attack was an act of terrorism. the senators are asking federal officials to see if mandatory security standards are needed for power companies to improve grid safety in our nation. getting some new details now on a multi-million dollar drone that suddenly plunged into the ocean. that drone's mission was to patrol the border and last month's crash prompted government officials to ground all aircraft used for border surveillance until an investigation was completed. well, now u.s. customs and border protection says that it malfunctioned and proper procedures were, indeed

followed. fresh violence shattering a fragile cease fire in syria. officials reporting an attack in the central part of the country breaking a three-day truce in the fighting to evacuate people and bring in food to those trapped. connor powell live in our munich bureau with more. hi, connor. >> reporter: several thousand syrians stuck in the town of homs. it's prevented much needed supplies from entering. different groups are being evacuated from that city as well. syrian state tv has said that four aide workers were injured as they tried to deliver medical and humanitarian aid to homs. this can't be verified. this is the claim by the syrian government. it seems there's a breakdown by

the government for getting goods and services to homs. on friday a little more than 80 women and children were evacuated during what was supposed to be a three-day truce. the cease fire was agreed upon during an international peace conference last month in switzerland. they hoped that this would form the foundation for a wider peace agreement potentially ending or at least stopping the three-year long bloody civil war that has just ravaged syria since 2011. homs was one of the first areas in the country that really rose up against president bashar assad and it's been hit hard by the syrian military. according to the military, 30,000 people have been killed in the fighting. it appears that neither side is strong enough to win the war now. we've had the steal mate are completely under control of the

rebels but a third or so of the country is being contested. it makes for a very bloody and violent country. >> connor powell, thanks so much for that report. the company tasked with running a background check on nsa leaker edward snowden completely botched the investigation. that according to a federal government report that shows that the company failed to perform even the most routine tasks, like verifying snowden's previous employer and his residence. they also used only his mother and then girlfriend. he's accused in one of the most damaging information dumps. he's still on the lamb where he's been granted temporary asylum. he's a fugitive in the united states. well, parts of the country welcoming winter storms this weekend. we're talking about states like california suffering a major drought and are looking for the snow and rain to provide some

relief to those areas. janice deen live. >> this is called the pineapple express, not to be confused with the movie starring james franco. this is an actual meteorological event. this is what they typically get to help with the drought. now we have seen an incredible drought, extreme to severe drought across california. this is welcome news. it will bring the potential flooding and dangerous travel across the west, ultimately we need this moisture. it will continue for the next week or so. on and off we have storms that will move in from the pacific. there's the drought monitor across the west coast, 40% severe to exceptional drought with the worst of it being across portions of california and nevada. look at all of the precipitation. in some cases we can get 2 to 4

feet of snow pack. then we can see six to eight inches of heavy rain in some of these areas that really need it. there's the drought monitor for california, northern, central california and southern california. there's where we see the rainfall much needed. will it be a drought buster? no. we need several of these systems. look at the deficits we're running. over 9 and a half for la to get on par for the season and for fresno, a four inch deficit for you. we need more moisture, precipitation to end the drought. across coastal areas, 18 to 36 inches of rain. at the very least we need several of these storms to make a dent. then across much of the country, across the western half, that's where we're dealing with it.

across the east, we're dealing with a lot of snow pack especially for the midwest and the northeast. we'll keep an eye on it. >> janice deen, thanks so much, j.d. >> you've got it. team u.s.a. is off to a golden start at the winter olympics in sochi, russia. sage winning the first gold medal of the 2013 gauges in the snowboarding slopestyle final. the ladies hockey team defeating finland 3-1. here is the olympic count. norway leading with 4 total medals. the united states has one gold so far. look at that. >> go team u.s.a. for sure. >> yes. well, the national highway traffic safety administration is considering a requirement that all new cars include vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology. they can talk to one another. the new plan to keep roadways

clear, doug mcelway has the story from washington. >> experimental x and r shows individuals what we have planned. this has travel instructions. >> reporter: that prediction about the future is now here. with the department of transportations announcement this week to press ahead with vehicle to vehicle technology. it's a gps feature that allows cars to sense proximity to itself and automatically provides a response. >> early studies indicate that v to v allows drivers to avoid 70 to 80% of vehicle crashes involving unimpaired drivers. >> v to v raises other concerns. he tells fox news, quote, it's a step forward in safety and two

steps back in privacy. >> the worry is that, you know, maybe the cars are going to want to have some value add-on services. they'll want to interact with that service. hey, we see that you go too fast. we see that you drive by the starbucks. maybe you want this discount. >> the lives of automobile manufacturers has thrown its tepid support behind v 2 v sec nolg. what remains to be addressed is it's not recording personal information. v 20 v doesn't even track vehicle zblompts v 2 v like so much of today's technology could be vulnerable to hacking. >> smart grid. smart infrastructure and smart cars. security will be a national

concern. >> they're currently fiejlizing a report on public comment in the coming weeks. it promises to reduce a head-on collision from those who value safety to those who value the freedom of the road. >> doug, thank you. what do you think? >> i was going to ask you, what do you think? >> i think it's a great idea. when the gps devices in cars. it was terrible. now everything -- you can't go anywhere without gps. >> you really can't. okay. we're going to talk about that one. >> you agree with me? >> i didn't say that. i have an opinion. >> stunning. >> that is stunning. >> new poles showing obamacare is more unpopular than ever if that's even possible. coming up, we'll take a look at the impact this is having on vulnerable democrats in the house and senate before mid term and whether congress is going to

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time now for a quick check on the headlines. at least 18 people have been killed in argentina after a packed passenger bus crashed into a truck that was driving on the wrong side of the highway. police say the truck had brazilian license plates, was stolen and was speeding. meantime in neighboring brazil a journalist is now in serious condition after being hit in the head by fireworks. it happened while he was covering a demonstration in rio de janeiro. police are now searching for suspects. crews are working to get the lights back on around philadelphia. power is still out for 150,000 homes and businesses after last week's ice storm. crews from other cities are also

pitching in to help. you're not going to believe this. growing concerns over another possible obamacare delay. this one could actually last for three years. that's right, the white house is considering asking insurance companies to keep millions of americans with individual policies on their existing health kplarn through 2016. so far about 6.2 million plans have been canceled. many more will be. no word yet on when the proposal could be finalized. >> and, greg, democratic lawmakers may be left vulnerable in the mid-term elections as they walk the tight rope over obamacare. during the campaign to save their seat, many members trying to shift it away from the delays and glitches. with more on this now, michael warren is here. writer for "the weekly standard." hey, michael. how are you? >> i'm great.

>> i'm well. let's talk about a couple of individual cases here. let's start in colorado where obamacare is very unpopular. i want to pull up a quinnipiac poll that found 60% opposed it and 37% support it. when you look closely, those that oppose obamacare in colorado include 68% independents, 61% of young adults under the age of 30. so i ask you, how does this impact democratic senator mark udall there of colorado. he's looking to retain his seat. >> these are devastating poll numbers, i think, for obamacare, for president obama and for mark udall. think of colorado as a swing state. it's voted for a lot of democrats in the last seven years. the republican party has not had much success there since 2008 when obama won the state. you combine that with the quinnipiac poll that found that

42% of coloradian voters. those are weak numbers ahead of an election year in 2014. you combine all of that together and it doesn't look good. mark udall is the 60th vote like any other democrat in the senate for obamacare. >> michael, let me go down south to louisiana where senator mary landrieu aired a commercial that showed the president to keep his promise and let people keep their current health plan if they want to and what the president obliged from senator landrieu and others. she was able to say to her constituents, listen, i'm fighting for you, not just the president's agenda. will this work for senator landrieu? >> it could work for her. she's not really distanced herself from the law much so i wonder if this sort of last-minute pushing away of the president is really going to do her much good. >> maybe not last minute. she started those commercials

last fall. >> true. true. if you go back to 2009, 2010, she was defending the laws -- excuse me, the bill's promise that you could keep your health care plan. >> at that point no one knew what was going to unfold. >> that's right. look, the power of video. the power of video and ads. i think she's going to have a difficult time saying i'm fighting for you if she's, again, the 60th vote for obama care when it passed the senate in 2010. look, it's not just about affecting people's health insurance or whether they can go to their doctors. the cbo report found the equivalent of 2.5 million jobs so it's about the economy, too. that's going to be a difficult narrative for her or any democrat to overcome. >> michael, you know each race is different and each state has different demands and needs. what are some of the platforms that some of the vulnerable dems might be able to hang their political currency on in hopes of cashing in in november? conversely, can republicans win

on antiobamacare campaigns alone? >> well, if you look at mary landry in louisiana or mark prior in arkansas, a lot of lower income americans who weren't covered. that's the tactic they'll say. they'll say, look, this law isn't perfect, it didn't work, but we voted for something that's going to give you access to health care insurance. that's pretty much all they can say in a state like that. they have a hard time going forward with just an antibe obamacare message. that's changing. you saw tom coburn and mark -- and excuse me warren hatch from utah had their own plan and sort of an obama care replacement. not going back to the status quo. i think the 2013 conservative think tank in washington is coming out with their own plan on monday. so there are a lot of new plans and i think it's going to be up to republicans to unify around

general ideas. we're not for the status quo but we're not for this law which is causing all of this turmoil in the health industry and the economy. >> so listen, michael, we're nine months away. final question for you. how do you think obama care will fare over the next nine months. as you see greg just reported, the president is adjusting the rules, a move that many see as strictly a political strategy. >> well, he can delay some of the rules and some of the parts of the law as he's done i think 25 times before, but the problem is going to come when that large employer man date is implemented in october. when people already start to get their health insurance quotes for their new year in 2015, they're going to be high like the individual market plans were at the end of 2013. so right around election time obamacare will be right back in the news, i predict, and just not going to be good for

democrats unless republicans shoot themselves in the foot and drop the ball on what's really a really good issue for them. >> michael warner, i have to leave it there. thanks so much. >> thanks. >> you're welcome. there's been a deadly train crash in france. we're goings to tell you what caused a tourist train to derail on a mountain side. look at that. >> oh, boy. plus, a retired police captain is charged with shooting and killing a man. will the new video cost him any defense? greg will talk to our legal panel when we come back. >> he said, i can't, and he pushed his glasses back. he said, i can't -- i can't believe what i've done. check it out.

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it is the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. ukraine investigating after a hijacking attempt. a man trying to divert a flight

to the olympics in russia. he was taken into custody after the plane landed safely in turkey. attorney general eric holder attending a gala in new york city tonight where he's expected to announce some big changes over all federal agencies and their policies on same-sex marriage. extending the government's recognition of gay marriage even into 34 states that do not consider it legal. and family and friends of joan mondale, the wife of the former vice president walter mondale paying respects at her memorial service in minneapolis. she died on monday at the age of 83. a falling boulder derailing a tourist train and killing two people in the french alps. it happened outside the town of anneau. the town's mayor saying a rock the size of a car pushed it off the tracks where it dangled. as crews worked to bring it back on the track, at least nine people were injured.

34 were on board at the time. the victims reportedly a russian woman and another french local. new fears for the safety of an american being held in north korea. according to the state department kenneth bae has been moved from a hospital to a labor camp. a department spokeswoman saying the u.s. is, quote, deeply concerned about bae's health and urged his immediate lease on humanitarian grounds. he was sentenced to 15 years hard labor for unspecified hostile acts. dramatic testimony in the murder case of the teenager killed after an argument over loud music outside a florida convenience store. the investigator testifying that they found nine bullet holes in the suv where 17-year-old jordan davis was killed. michael dunn is charged with first degree murder and three counts of attempted first degree

murder. the investigator also saying that the location of the bullet holes shows the suv's driver and his front seat passenger barely escaped being shot. dunn says he fired in self-defense. speaking of self-defense. another shooting getting great national attention. this case involving a retired police captain accused of killing a man inside a movie theater during an argument over texting. grainy surveillance footage of the altercation shown in court for the very first time this week. the defendant's wife claiming her husband was in fear for his life and trying to protect himself. that's what he says as well. the attorney for the victim's wife saying otherwise. >> he was in law enforcement 23 years. >> right. i'm so sorry. >> he's never threatened anybody with a gun or nothing. i don't know. if a guy hit him and i trust my

husband he hit him, i don't know if he thought he was going to hurt him. >> he can allege all the facts he wants as far as what was thrown, but there was no reason for this guy to feel that he was in fear for his life in order to have to pull out a gun and shoot someone. >> fox news legal analyst kirsten willis, good to see you. >> good to see you, greg. >> all the testimony in the world won't make any difference if you can enhance and isolate the videotape, mercedes. at first blush it does not appear as though the victim is menacing. >> exactly. i mean, if anything it's a popcorn flying vet. what is justification, if any. the jury is going to say, what justification could there have been? popcorn thrown in your face, you're going to shoot the person dead. can't imagine. >> right hand side, lower. they'll be able to enhance this thing. they'll freeze frame it the same way in the cop trial in seemy valley, california. the rodney king beating case. the videotape was the key piece

of evidence in this case. >> yeah, absolutely. and i think once you watch this video, but also not just the video, all the witness testimony and even the two wives that were there. here at the bail hearing mr. reeves wife said, well, i didn't see the victim in the case hit my husband, but he said he did. >> yeah. >> well, she said something else, too. she just burries her husband. she said -- this is reeves' wife, quote, there was no cause to shoot anyone. at that point in time reeves allegedly said, you shut your f 'ing mouth, don't say another word. my goodness, mercedes, that's what the law calls consciousness of guilt. >> that's so problematic. we're all trial lawyers here. when you have witnesses on the stand, they sometimes just eviscerate themselves because of their testimony. you can't get around the nerves. she buried her husband at that point. >> now let's play a sound bite, very short. seven seconds long. a police officer who basically

recounts what the accused immediately after the shooting. here it is. >> he said, i -- i can't -- and he pushed his glasses back. he said, i can't -- i can't believe what i done. >> all right. now that's hearsay, but it comes under an exception, statement against interest, and be how incriminating is that? >> it's so incriminating. i was listening to mercedes talking about his wife statement. it comes out of his own mouth. essentially he couldn't believe what he did. it wasn't justified. then he has defense counsel standing up saying this was self-defense. a jury will see through that. i can't imagine from what we've heard in just the bail hearing there will be anything. >> the deceased may testify from the grave because there are witnesses who said he said the following just before he died, quote, i can't believe he shot me. >> right. >> again, hearsay. the exception to hearsay is dying declaration.

>> dying declaration. excited utterances. all of that will probably come in. >> that statement, what does it say, i can't believe he shot me. >> like i haven't done anything to justify what this man just did. frankly, if he was armed, come on, greg, if he was armed he would have shot the cop to begin with, and he didn't. he didn't shoot reeves. anybody that has a weapon, they would have used it, not thrown a handful of popcorn at someone. >> i don't know that he would have shot him because it was such an innocuous situation. all over texting. >> you're allowed to defend yourself if you're in imminent fear of severe bodily threat. since when it popcorn a lethal weapon? >> correct.rodies made. this is such an innocuous situation. for him to say he was frightened, he initiated the situation. >> he's charged with second degree murder, not premeditated

murder but depraved indifference. if you were defending him, would you try to get a lesser included. >> invowelline taur ri manslaughter. >> i acted in the passion of the moment. >> has to be w. this videotape that's incriminating as well, there has to be a lesser includ included charge. the defense attorney tried the whole self-defense in order to get under florida's law. couldn't do it. i would say that preliminary didn't help. >> would you abandon this whole self-defense and try to go down and say this. volunta voluntary. knowing that the minimum on that is nine years, he could do six and be out. >> i think you have to. i think you have to look at all the evidence. you have to look at the public outrage. all i have is that he snapped. the lesser included is the only way he can go. >> the public knows the texting innings incidence, it was over

texting. >> his little daughter, i mean, you know? if he was texting somebody else, but this is a little 2 or 3 zbleerld and his wife trying to defend him with her hand up and her getting shot. >> that's the thing. it's an aggravated count. >> he's going to face assault charges for her as well. >> mercedes, christ continue, thanks for joining us. >> good to know, guys. the job market posting weak gains these last two months. coming up, we'll hear why some critics say the economy may be sunnier than the numbers suggest. legs up! legs up? gs up! legs up! legs up! verizon has free tablets and ee phones. get here anyway you can. good job! free tablets. free phones. on the best network. only at verizon. get tablets like the verizon ellipsis 7 free.

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sluggish job growth for the second straight month. the u.s. added 113,000 jobs in january. now that's below what analysts were expecting and what they say is needed to get the economy moving again, but dig a little deeper and you'll find some encouraging signs because much of the new hiring happening in manufacturing and construction. here to break it all down, steven rosen is the managing director and partner of hightower. hi, steven. >> good morning -- good afternoon, how are you? >> yes. steven, first give me your general assessment of friday's job and what you think it

signals as far as the direction the ee done my is going? >> i think the economy is stuck in a stall speed that we've been in for a long whim. i think it's nice to have pickup in manufacturing and construction. at the end of the day we ended up with 113,000 jobs after a 75,000 job print in december. i think you would have liked to have seen a little bit of a better print this month. that said it's nice to see it from areas like construction and manufacturing. >> those are considered the winners last month. talking about manufacturing/construction jobs. those sectors adding 76,000 jobs last month. most economies are thinking, stephen, that hiring is going to strengthen throughout the year as the economy improves, so i'm one doerg though if you're seeing the same thing in your crystal ball. >> i wish i had a crysthri chri

crystal ball. >> i wish i had one. i think we are in a slow economy that's gotten mediocre growth to it, 2.5 to 3% is what we're looking at. i think the job market is very much symptomatic of what we're seeing in the overall economy. i think unfortunately what we're seeing is people are still somewhat reluctant to hire because they don't know what the end game will be with the federal reserve. i think the starting of the tapering which will begin in december and continue on throughout the year is going to help people get more reassured that maybe the economy can stand on its own two feet, but i don't really think that we can get significant job growth until people can be confident that the economy is going to be able to stand on its own two feet. >> i'm going to touch on the federal reserve here for a moment. let me go here. unemployment rate, 6.6%. people found jobs. more americans started looking for jobs suggesting that their chances of finding jobs still, you know, getting better.

still is unemployment what you might be concerned about? >> i think under employment is what we're all concerned about. if you take a look at the labor participation rate, it's some of the lowest rates we've seen in history. i think if we factored in a little bit higher participation rate, we'd be somewhere in the mid 7% rate for unemployment. so i think that's something to really keep an eye upon. the underemployed is a significant problem in the economy. >> so new federal reserve chair janet yellen making her first public comments in her role this week before congress. considering the unemployment rate is now at 6.6% as i mentioned, what course of action do you expect from the fed in the weeks and months to come, stephen? >> we think the fed's just going to continue on the slow tapering every single month chopping off $10 billion. we think that will continue throughout the rest of the year. we think that the market's probably anticipate that. i think when you take a look at the bond market you'll see that they're not super convinced the

economy is going to take off. they're not super concerned about inflation. we've seen interest rates come down from a little over 3% to under 2.7 over the last couple of days. so i think when you take a look at the bond market, they're telling a little bit of a different story than what the stock market is telling you which is really, you know, only 3 or 4% off its 52 week all-time highs. >> so what does that mean? >> well, i think that with the bond market telling you that they're very much concerned about the economy. they understand job growth hasn't been great. so they're taking a little bit more cautious view than i think what the equity markets are taking. the equity markets have a tendency to get a little bit out of balance. they're extremes. there are extremes to the up side and extremes to the down side. what we'd like to see is the fed to continue to taper. we'd like to see the economy stand on its own two feet. this way the economy can get a sense and the market can get a sense as to what the long-term

prospects are. if we're going to have problems, let's have them now. we're looking at 15 to 16 times forward looking earnings. if the economy were to go into some form of recession because the fed stepped out of the way, maybe you have a 20, 25% down side risk to the market. i think people can absorb that. if we continue to let the fed inflate the economy and continue to let the market go to these higher levels, you know, some people are calling for 2000, 2100 on the s&p 500, it sets us up for even a larger fall. >> stephen, listen. i appreciate your analysis. i know you'll be watching ms. yellen and we'll get you back next weekend. >> sounds great. thank you very much. have a nice weekend. >> you, too. get yourself a crystal ball. i have one. they might have started the tapering a bit too soon on the quantitative easing. it's not that great. >> there's more to come. we'll have a little bit more of

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will are concerns a key weapon in the fight against terrorists may be in jeopardy. drones operate in afghanistan. but if the pentagon is forced to pull most of our troops from will by the end of the year, the u.s. military could lose the base toys operate the drone program against pakistan militants, against terrorist jihadists there. chris is author of "smart power between diplomacy and war." it is already happening. in 2010 we had 222 drone strikes against terrorists in pakistan and has been reduced last year to 26 strikes. >> that's right. what this is the obama administration's strategy of only going after what they call core al qaeda. that sounds good but the fact is we have a lot more to worry about. there is the taliban and a lot more to islamist mitear risk.

>> many mike rogers, who knows a lot because he has all of the confidential top secret information, he calls president obama's changed strategy on the target strikes as, quote, an utter and complete failureg ame. is he right? >> i think so. even the strategy of relying on drones, which we are now about to lose, but even shifting from that, from a more pervasive approach of gathering intelligence on the ground, operating on the ground, a higher risk strategy that pays higher rewards, that was better because you can't read people's intentions from 30,000 feet. you can't get tips from 30,000 feet. there is a limit to what you can achieve from overhead imagery. but drones are better than nothing and that's what's at risk here. after the end of the year, we will be down to nothing in afghanistan and pakistan. >> when president obama ordered the so-called surge strategy which essentially borrowed from his predecessor in iraq, he

simultaneously announced the withdrawal of troops and gave a specific timetable. was he's enly saying to the terrorists, hey, take a vacation and wait us out and you will win? >> i think so. if you look at robert gates' new book, gates a lot of times tries to have a v it both ways. he shows the president that it is essentially -- in his objections to the military doing their jobs. the military coming in and saying we want to implement the strategy that you have ordered. counter-insurgency strategy but we need this amount of forces to do it. by the way, let's not telegraph our departure date to the minimum. a lot of americans want goat out of afghanistan and that's understandable. it is time to pull back in transition but this is the region that gave rise to 9/11 and we need to maintain some ability to collect intelligence and to operate in this part of the world. >> it has been said president obama made little or no effort for a status of forces agreement to keep troops in iraq as a result. his critics say that, you know, iraq is now a terrorist mess.

al qaeda has taken over fallujah and ramadi. could the same thing happen in afghanistan? does it appear as though it is headed in that direction? if so, would that make president obama's afghan strategy also a failure? >> it would. it not onlyis possible. i would say it is likely to happen. having troops present in a country doesn't mean that they are going to go off and fight every fight. if we had troops today in iraq i don't think they would be on the frontlines in fallujah for a third time in that city. it gives you political power and makes the foreign government listen to you. it means you have a stake in the game. you can manage political outcomes. for example, they went the wrong way for the united states and it means that iraq turned towards iran. having troops and presence in afghanistan would give us the ability to influence events there and somewhat. but unfortunately i think that -- i think secretly the obama ad would like to fail.

they would like the excuse and sfag president karzai is providing an excuse to basically walk out of afghanistan completely. >> karzai said that he and president obama have not spoken directly since june. how can that be? >> this is the administration that said it was going to do diplomacy. it said we are going to move away from those cowboys a. president bush got on the phone, teleconference, every week with iraq's prime minister and spoke very -- frequently with karzai and not because he enjoyed doing it but because it is part of your job as commander in chief. this is a president that has no peers among foreign leaders. it is a real shame. it is hurting our interests. >> it may be time to fire up the helicopters on the chopper pad on the roof of the u.s. embassy in kabul. good to see you.

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